"Say you are in the country in some high land of lakes. Take almost any path you please, and ten to one it carries you down in a dale and leaves you there by a pool the stream. There is magic in it. Let the most absent-minded of men be plunged in his deepest reveries – stand that man on his legs, set his feet a-going, and he will infallibly lead you to water, if water there be in all that region….Yes, as every one knows, meditation and water are wedded forever."
Moby Dick, Herman Melville